Big Beautiful Border Security!

May 19, 2025

President Trump and House Republicans are committed to restoring immigration integrity and enhancing national security. The Judiciary Committee’s reconciliation provisions, which passed out of our committee, deliver critical resources to advance both priorities.

Our provisions provide funding for at least 1 million annual removals, 10,000 new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel, and detention capacity sufficient to maintain an average daily population of at least 100,000 aliens. It also introduces a new series of fees that provide funding and resources to various agencies.

Funding the Trump Administration’s Immigration Agenda:

Funds allocated to ICE, CBP, USCIS, and EOIR to expand detention, deportations, and enforcement staffing.
Funding to hire 10,000 new ICE officers and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) criminal investigators
Funding for at least 1 million deportations through ground and air transportation
Funding for more detention beds
Funding for “Remain in Mexico” policy enforcement
Funding for screening unaccompanied children for gang affiliations
Funding for hiring government lawyers to accelerate removals
Codifies permanent fees for immigration services to ensure cost recovery and reduce the federal deficit.

Expansion of Immigration Fees:

$1,000 asylum application fee — first in U.S. history
$1,000 fee for individuals paroled into the U.S.
$3,500 fee for sponsors of unaccompanied children
$5,000 fee for sponsors of unaccompanied children who fail to appear in court
$550 fee for work permits
$500 application fee for Temporary Protected Status (TPS)
$400 fee to file a diversity immigrant visa application
$250 fee to register for the Diversity Visa Lottery
$250 visa integrity fee
$100 year fee while asylum applications remain pending
$100 fee for continuances granted in immigration court
$5,000 fee for individuals ordered removed in absentia
$1,500 fee to adjust status to lawful permanent resident (green card)
$1,050 fee for inadmissibility waivers
$900 fee to appeal a decision by an immigration judge
$900 fee to appeal a decision by DHS
$1,325 fee to appeal in practitioner disciplinary cases
$900 fee to file motions to reopen or reconsider
$600 application fee for suspension of deportation
$600 application fee for cancellation of removal (permanent residents)
$1,500 application fee for cancellation of removal (non-permanent residents)
$30 fee for Form I-94 (arrival/departure record), up from $6

Conservative Priorities:

We're shifting the cost of adjudication in the immigration system from the American taxpayer to aliens, and these changes are projected to reduce the federal deficit by tens of billions over 10 years.
Every dollar raised supports agency operations or contributes to deficit reduction.
We're providing immigration enforcement agencies – ICE, CBP, USCIS, and EOIR – with critical funding and resources to enforce current immigration laws and secure our communities.
We're protecting taxpayers by ensuring immigration services are self-sustaining. This is about providing resources to enforce our immigration laws, make our communities safe again, and implement responsible fiscal policy.

President Trump promised to secure the border and deport violent criminal illegal aliens. Let's help him do it!